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My curriculum vitae, including education, research experience, publications, and skills in machine learning, sequence modelling and brain-inspired computing.
General
| Name | Tristan Torchet |
| Label | PhD Student in Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience |
| tristan.torchet@uzh.ch | |
| Phone | +33 7 61 18 28 96 |
| Summary | PhD student working on hardware-software co-design, dendritic computing, and linear sequence models with a focus on brain-inspired computing. |
| GitHub | TristanTorchet |
| tristantorchet | |
| Google Scholar | Tristan Torchet |
Industry
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2021.06 - 2021.09 Data Engineer Intern
Prediko
Implemented ML pipeline for time series forecasting and developed dashboard for company and user activity monitoring.
- Implemented pipeline for time series forecasts using ARIMA, ARIMAX, SARIMAX and ensemble techniques with Darts library
- Developed full-stack dashboard (MongoDB, FastAPI, Docker, GCP) presented to investors for $5M funding round
- Used machine learning algorithms and Gaussian Processes for stock management optimization
Education
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2023.09 - Present Zürich, Switzerland
Joint Ph.D.
Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETHZ and UZH
Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience
- Hardware-software co-design
- Dendritic computing
- Linear sequence models
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2021.09 - 2023.07 Zürich, Switzerland
Master of Science
ETH Zürich
Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
- Introduction to Machine Learning
- Advanced Machine Learning
- Neuromorphic Engineering I & II
- VLSI I, II & III
- Machine Learning on Microcontrollers
- Introduction to Neuroinformatics
- Deep Learning in Biological Networks
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2017.09 - 2021.07 Lausanne, Switzerland
Bachelor
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Analysis I, II, III, IV
- Physics I, II, III, IV
- Electrotechnics I & II
- Electronics I & II
Selected Publications
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2025 Quantizing Small-Scale State-Space Models for Edge AI
ACM International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS)
Demonstrated efficient low-bit state-space models through quantization-aware training with heterogeneous precision scheme reducing memory 6× without performance loss.
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2025 mGRADE: Minimal Recurrent Gating Meets Delay Convolutions for Lightweight Sequence Modeling
Under Review
Proposed a hybrid-memory architecture enabling efficient multi-scale temporal processing on edge devices with competitive results on long-range dependency tasks.
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2024 DenRAM: neuromorphic dendritic architecture with RRAM for efficient temporal processing with delays
Nature Communications
Developed hardware-aware training compatible with RRAM circuits for spiking neural networks achieving best performance for feedforward SNN models.
Skills
| Programming | |
| Python (JAX, PyTorch) | |
| C | |
| C++ | |
| CUDA |
| Hardware Design | |
| SystemVerilog | |
| Siemens QuestaSim® | |
| Synopsys Design Compiler® | |
| Cadence Innovus® | |
| Cadence Virtuoso® |
Languages
| French | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| C1 |
| Italian | |
| C1 |
| Spanish | |
| B2 |
Interests
| Research | |
| Brain-inspired Computing | |
| Hardware-software Co-design | |
| Sequence Modeling | |
| Edge AI |
References
| Prof. Melika Payvand | |
| Main supervisor, Emerging Intelligent Substrates Lab, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETHZ/UZH melika@ini.uzh.ch |
| Prof. Shih-Chii Liu | |
| Committee member, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETHZ/UZH shih@ini.uzh.ch |
| Dr. Abu Sebastian | |
| Committee member, IBM Research ase@zurich.ibm.com |
| Prof. Luca Benini | |
| Committee member, ETHZ lbenini@iis.ee.ethz.ch |